FRAGO E - cbgp

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Enric FRAGO

Researcher, Cirad

Axe(s)

Characterisation and evolution of biodiversity

Plateau(x) technique(s)

GABP

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Scientific manager GABP TP
Member of the unit's Scientific Advisory Board

Insect herbivores are among the most abundant and diverse groups of animals in terrestrial ecosystems, and engage in complex interactions with their natural enemies, host plants, and microbial symbionts. I develop an experimental community ecology program to study these interactions and to understand the ecological processes that shape plant-based terrestrial ecosystems. I study these interactions to provide fundamental ecological knowledge, but also to help manage species that have a negative impact on agricultural or forest ecosystems. As herbivores I work with a variety of systems including aphids, spider-mites and thrips.

Frago E. & Zytynska S. 2023. Impact of herbivore symbionts on parasitoid foraging behaviour. Current Opinion in Insect Science 57 : 101027. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2023.101027)

Frago E., Gols R., Schweiger R., Müller C., Dicke M. & Godfray H.C.J. 2022. Herbivore-induced plant volatiles, not natural enemies, mediate a positive indirect interaction between insect herbivores. Oecologia 198 : 443–456. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05097-1)

Zytynska S.E., Tighiouart* K. & Frago E. 2021. Benefits and costs of hosting facultative symbionts in plant‐sucking insects: A meta‐analysis. Molecular Ecology 30 : 2483-2494. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15897)

Sanders D., Frago E., Kehoe R., Patterson C. & Gaston K.J. 2021. A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 : 74-81. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01322-x)

Kehoe R., Frago E. & Sanders D. 2021. Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline. Ecological Entomology 46 : 743-756. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12985)

Facon B., Hafsi A., Charlery de la Masselière M., Robin S., Massol F., Dubart M., Chiquet J., Frago E., Chiroleu F., Duyck P.F., Ravigné V. & Coulson T. 2021. Joint species distributions reveal the combined effects of host plants, abiotic factors and species competition as drivers of species abundances in fruit flies. Ecology Letters 24 : 1905-1916. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13825)

Marrao R., Frago E., Pereira J.A. & Tena A. 2020. An autoparasitoid wasp, inferior at resource exploitation, outcompetes primary parasitoids by using competitor females to produce males. Ecological Entomology 45 : 727-740. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12846)

Goldarazena A., Dianzinga N.T., Frago E., Michel B. & Reynaud P. 2020. A new species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from the Malagasy Region. Zootaxa 4750 : 443-446. (https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.13)

Goldarazena A., Matsumoto M., Ranarilalatiana T., Dianzinga N.T., Frago E. & Michel B. 2020. Dendrothripoides moundi (Thysanoptera, Thripidae), a new species from Madagascar. Zootaxa 4877 : 396-400. (https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4877.2.12)

Dianzinga N.T., Moutoussamy M.L., Sadeyen J., Ravaomanarivo L.H.R. & Frago E. 2020. The interacting effect of habitat amount, habitat diversity and fragmentation on insect diversity along elevational gradients. Journal of Biogeography 47 : 2377-2391. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13959)